10 August 2025
Azerbaijan may consider lifting its embargo on supplying weapons to Ukraine if Russia continues to strike Ukraine’s gas infrastructure through which Azerbaijani gas flows.
Source: Caliber.Az, an Azerbaijani news agency, as reported by European Pravda
Details: On Sunday 10 August, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held a phone call during which they discussed Russian strikes on Ukraine’s gas infrastructure carrying Azerbaijani gas and an attack on a SOCAR oil depot in Odesa.
The two leaders said they were outraged by the actions of the Russian armed forces.
Caliber.Az, citing reliable sources, reports that if Russia continues its aggressive policy towards Azerbaijan’s interests, Baku will begin considering lifting its embargo on supplying Ukraine with weapons from its arsenal.
Russia’s armed forces have begun systematically targeting Azerbaijani energy facilities located in Ukraine. This situation is pushing Baku to take retaliatory measures.
Background:
- On the night of 7-8 August 2025, Russian forces attacked an oil depot belonging to the Azerbaijani company SOCAR in Odesa Oblast, Ukraine.
- Russia launched five Shahed strike drones on the SOCAR oil depot, causing a fire and damaging a diesel pipeline. Four company employees sustained serious injuries.
- This was the second attack in recent weeks on facilities in Ukraine connected to Azerbaijan. Earlier, the Russians targeted a gas distribution station near Orlivka, a key element of the Trans-Balkan Gas Pipeline, which began transporting Azerbaijani gas to Ukraine on 28 June.
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/08/10/7525519
I hope that Azerbaijan is braver than South Korea, who is just another jellyfish country. Azerbaijan also has to fear a mafia victory. The best bet against this is to help Ukraine.
And now that they have a peace deal with Armenia, they have a lot of kit that Ukraine could use 🙂
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY TELEGRAPH ON ALASKA :
SIR – The naivety of President Trump’s approach to Ukraine is both incomprehensible and a threat to European security. He is surely bound by the terms of the Budapest Memorandum of 1995, signed by Bill Clinton, to respect the sovereignty and “existing borders” of Ukraine as they were then.
His apparent determination to do a grubby deal, under which Ukraine would cede land brutally seized by the Russian aggressor, would be an abject betrayal of Ukraine and an incentive to President Putin to pursue his declared goal of rebuilding the former Soviet Union, threatening the hard-won independence of the Baltic and other Soviet vassal states. Russia’s thugs must be removed from every inch of stolen land.
Sir Gerald Howarth Former minister for international security strategy Chelsworth, Suffolk
SIR – Charles Moore (Comment, August 9) is so right about Ukraine. The talks in Alaska should not be about appeasing an invader, divvying up the mineral rights of a country not in the room, or driven by Donald Trump’s desperation to get a deal. Nor should it be about who holds the best cards. It is about the future of a free, independent and sovereign Ukraine. The only individual who can negotiate and sign off an acceptable peace deal is Volodymyr Zelensky. He needs to have Europe’s full support.
David Kenny Tredunnock, Monmouthshire
Russia is the only country in the world to have shot down three civilian airliners.
1. Korean Airlines (KE-007), 1983
2. Malaysia Airlines (MH-17), 2014
3. Azerbaijan Airlines (J2-8243), 2024
And got away Scott free with all three.
But, don’t forget the Polish government plane that they shot down near Smolensk.
Yes, that was a bad omission by me.
That was mass murder of senior Polish dignitaries; a Katyn repeat. British experts found traces of explosives in the wreckage. Why the Poles have kept semi-quiet on this is frankly baffling.